448 pages : 24 cm

An anthology of literature for the youngest children including nursery rhymes, fables, folk tales, poems and stories primarily from American and British sources but from many other places, too

Illustrated title page and lining-papers in colors

Lettered on back: My bookhouse: from the tower window, five

Many illustrations are signed, and include the following: Donn P. Crane, M.D. Charleson

List of stories and poems arranged alphabetically

An address to new-made citizens / Woodrow Wilson -- The story of Alfred, the Saxon (English history) -- Bannockburn / Robert Burns -- The bugle song / Alfred Tennyson --A tale of the Cid and his daughters (from the Spanish epic, the Cid) -- Coaly-Bay, the outlaw horse / Ernest Thompson Seton -- Cuchulain, the Irish hound (from ancient Gaelic songs) -- The surprising adventures of Don Quixote / Miguel de Cervantes ; arranged by Frances Jenkins Olcott -- The emperor's new clothes / Hans Christian Andersen -- The exile of Rama (from the East Indian epic, Ramayana) -- Stanzas on freedom / James Russell Lowell -- Frithjof the Viking (From the Norse saga of Frithjof) -- Gathering song of Donuil Dhu / Sir Walter Scott -- The home-coming of Ulysses (from the Odyssey of Homer) -- How Beowulf delivered Heorot (from the Old English epic, Beowulf) -- A hymn of Alfred's / King Alfred -- Joan of Arc (French history) -- Joseph and his brethren (the Bible) -- Kalevala, land of heroes (from the Finnish epic, Kalevala) -- The melting pot (a story of true Americanism) / Israel Zangwill -- Mr. Hampden's shipwreck / John Masefield -- The new colossus / Emma Lazarus -- Opportunity / Edward Rowland Sill -- A perfect knight (from Canterbury tales) / Geoffrey Chaucer -- Richard Feverel and the hayr-rick, George Meredith -- Robert Bruce, Scotland's hero (Scottish history) -- Ye merry doinges of Robin Hood (from old ballads) -- The story of Roland (from the French Chanson de Roland) -- The story of Rustem (from the Book of kings) -- Sir Beaumains, the kitchen knight (a legend of the round table) -- Snow-bound (extract) / John Greenleaf Whittier -- Trees / Joyce Kilmer -- The two pilgrims / Leo N. Tolstoy -- Una and the red cross knight / Edmund Spenser -- Under the greenwood tree / William Shakespeare -- White aster (from a romantic Chinese poem) -- The legend of William Tell (Swiss) -- Winter neighbors / John Burroughs -- Wolfert Webber, or golden dreams / Washington Irving

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